Your Preshift
Ryan Bond
Publishing Details
About This Podcast
Podcasting 2.0 Features
Explore Statistics
Recent Episodes
Change is Changing - AI Series
AI is making answers easier to find than ever before. The problem is that every answer demands attention. Ryan explores why frontline leaders are feeling overwhelmed, how too many priorities create…
Outsource Your Thinking? We Can Tell. - AI Series
This week, Ryan explores what happens when AI makes everything look polished, but not everything is actually well thought out. Through stories from the workplace, the luxury industry, and a simple…
Fighting the Urge to Give Up Ownership - AI Series
In this episode, Ryan tackles "responsibility abdication", the habit of blaming a higher power to avoid tough conversations. While managers used to blame "Corporate," the predictive scheduling and…
Rewind: Why We Still Reach for the Wrench
We're rewinding a classic for the AI era: In this kickoff to the Lead Like a Gardener series, we explore why so many leaders default to pressure, control, and quick fixes, especially in fast-paced…
Leading Work You've Never Done - AI Series
"I lead you because I’ve done your job." For decades, this has been the ultimate safety net for frontline leaders. But in the era of AI, that safety net is disappearing.In this episode, Ryan explores…
The AI Great Divide: Are You a Creator or a Symptom-Solver
In the age of AI, Ryan argues that frontline leadership is splitting into two distinct classes. On one side is the Receiver, the leader who treats new tech as a set of instructions to follow, often…
AI and Frontline Leadership - Series Kickoff - From Doer to Director
Ryan kicks off a new series on AI and frontline leadership, starting from a place a lot of people can relate to, he was late to take it seriously. What once felt like fantasy is now showing up in…
Why Your Best People Are Getting Average Results
Why do talented leaders end up with average results?This episode looks at how systems, not people, usually cause the slide, rigid rules, busy work that doesn’t use your brain, and losing your say in…
Hitting the number, missing the work
A seasoned restaurant leader shares a story from early in his career, when the pressure to hit numbers led him to game the system, not out of defiance, but because he didn’t actually understand what…
The Number Isn’t the Problem
In this episode of Your Preshift, Ryan challenges a common leadership habit, chasing numbers as if they’re the problem. Using the metaphor of trying to hold an inner tube underwater, he shows why…
Better for Your Time Here
In this Preshift, we talk about a simple question for every leader and organization: are people actually better off for having worked with you?This one is also a small tribute to Bob Chapman, whose…
When You Inherit a Mess
When you step into a struggling team or organization, it’s easy to focus on fixing the numbers. But most of the time, the numbers are just a reflection of something deeper, the beliefs, behaviors,…
What kind of organization are you growing?
Leaders don’t just lead differently, they see the world differently. And the way we see people shapes the kind of workplace we build around them.In this episode of Your Preshift, we explore a…
Rewind: Here Comes Help or Here Comes Trouble? (New episode next week!)
How does your team feel when they see you coming? Do they breathe easier, or brace for impact?This episode takes a look at one of the truths of leadership: your presence, your reputation, arrives…
Why Leaders See the Same Situation Differently
Why do smart, well-intentioned leaders look at the same struggling team and come to completely different conclusions?In this opening episode, Ryan explores how leaders don’t just disagree on…
Leadership is Locating Yourself
Leading people over time requires more than good intentions. It requires self-location.Before you recalibrate trust, adjust structure, or change your level of involvement, you have to know where…
Mistaking stability for effectiveness
In this episode, we look at a tension most frontline leaders deal with: stability versus effectiveness.Stability keeps stuff from falling apart and unfortunately become the goal. Leaders start…
The Leadership Trap of Familiarity
Familiarity sets in faster than most of us realize, and when it does, leadership effort drops. Expectations go unstated, involvement fades, and leaders start leading from old assumptions instead of…
Why Your Brain Keeps Reusing Old Leadership
In this episode of Your Preshift, we explore why good leaders keep leading people the same way, even as those people change. Drawing from cognitive psychology and leadership research, the episode…
Leading People Where They Are, Not Where They Used to Be
Leadership doesn’t stop working because people get worse. It stops working because the approach stops fitting.This episode challenges the idea that great leaders have a single leadership “style.”…
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Preshift has published 64 episodes since April 2025, covering topics in Business, Education.
Your Preshift is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 14m.
Similar Podcasts
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
1,346 episodes
19 Keys Presents High Level Conversations
EYL Network
484 episodes
Solo – The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life
Dr. Peter McGraw
267 episodes
UnBuild It Podcast
Unbuild It Podcast
177 episodes
Your Brain at Work
Neuroleadership Institute
214 episodes
Rule Your Pool
Eric Knight
194 episodes